You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché? — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night"… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We live and breathe words. … It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chapter a day' and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I always thought that eventually there would be a moment where I realized that I had practiced enough and now I was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
For me my big dream that I would like to achieve is for each book to be better than the books that… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not ritualistic about writing. I try to write as often as possible, which means that I have to be able to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A lot of people feel like urban fantasy is a shortcut that gets you around world-building, because it's set "in the real… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
“So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are going off… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets.. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you." "Who's Magnus?" Max inquired. "He's a warlock," said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
“they all have always loved you Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however har you try.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
“We work through this together, remember? No shutting me out. No epic sulks.” “I was figuring I could sulk for Idris in the next… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
“Lex malla, lex nulla,” said Julian with a regretful wave of his hand. It was the Blackthorn family motto: A bad law is no… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
“I wasn’t just worried about him; I was worried about you, too. There’s something so . . . reassuring about you. And Jace is… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
